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Winter unofficially arrives on Friday night when New Hampton High School will hold its annual Meet the Team Night for its basketball and wrestling teams. This year’s event will have an admission charge but it goes to a good cause as the Letterman Club is conducting a canned food drive for the...

For Sawyer Anderson, the epiphany came when he stepped onto the field at the Walston-Hoover Stadium for pregame warmups. “It really me hit me then,” the former New Hampton High School star said, “that this was it. This was the last time I was ever going to play football.” For Nolan Boyd, it came...

New Hampton’s Keaton Geerts made it official Friday when he signed a national letter of intent to continue his wrestling career next year at the University of Northern Iowa. But after signing his name to the proverbial dotted line, all Geerts could think about was what would start in three days...

The adage “to the victor goes the spoils” certainly applies to the 2016 Turkey Valley football team.After a brilliant 9-0 regular season, one in which ended with a first-round playoff loss, the Trojans dominated the Eight-Man, District 2 teams and individual awards.Six Trojans — seniors Cody...

Most of the first team Northeast Iowa Conference volleyball picks were split between league-leading Charles City and No. 2 Waverly-Shell Rock this year.Only one spot went to a player other than a Comet or a Go-Hawk as New Hampton’s Emma Nicolaisen earned first team honors. Also selected to an...

The New Hampton football team was rewarded by Class 2A, District 2 coaches for its 8-1 regular season and trip to the playoffs in a big way. Nine Chickasaws earned all-district first team honors while another three were named honorable mention. New Hampton players were also honored for their work...

Two Turkey Valley seniors were named to the Upper Iowa Conference honorable mention list at the end of what was a rebuilding year for the team. Trojan hitters Brooke Herold and Morgen Kuennen were placed on the list among players in the 11-team conference. Among the small schools in the UIC,...

Let’s be honest, given the choice of being 5-20 or 20-5, we’d all take the latter. Or given the option of being 3-6 or 6-3, again, we’d take the latter. And asked for a preference, any runner would prefer to have the season end in Fort Dodge at the state meet rather than see it conclude in Cedar...

Makayla Biddle wants to get one thing out of the way when it comes to cheerleading. “It’s not just pom-poms and cheering at football games,” the Nashua-Plainfield senior said. “It’s way more than that.” Yes, it is, and the Huskies cheer squad is chasing after a title this weekend at the Iowa...

In her third year of running in the state cross country meet, is Shelby Reicks calm and collected before the top race of the season? "Not really," said the Trojan senior after placing 49th of 135 runners in Fort Dodge. "Before the race I'm still pretty nervous, but it goes away when you get...